Ethics and Child Nutrition

Clinical Ethics and Nutrition Support

Nutrition support should be considered optional when this therapy is not in congruence with an individual's wishes based on quality of life goals, during the end-of-life period. Ethical dilemmas, dealing with nutrition therapy, are often due to lack of early communication between individuals, their family, and healthcare providers. Landmark young adult ethical court cases, dealing with nutritio...

Ethics of Artificial Nutrition

Artificial nutrition represents the whole set of medical therapies which totally or partially replace oral feeding when this is no longer possible. Artificial nutrition needs to be initiated and withdrawn depending on the balance between the advantages and disadvantages induced to the patient. The medical world frequently encounters dilemmas about initiating and withdrawing this treatment. Nume...

Maternal and child nutrition.

Is it enough to declare conflicts of interest? In TheLancet Series on maternal and child nutrition, two authors declared conflicts of interest as members of the board of the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Advisory Committee—a company that repeatedly transgresses the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.1 We wonder how the Lancet's policy on conflicts of interest was applied. ...

Maternal and child nutrition.

Shared Principles of Ethics for Infant and Young Child Nutrition in the Developing World

BACKGROUND The defining event in the area of infant feeding is the aggressive marketing of infant formula in the developing world by transnational companies in the 1970s. This practice shattered the trust of the global health community in the private sector, culminated in a global boycott of Nestle products and has extended to distrust of all commercial efforts to improve infant and young child...